To Be a Somebody

Three young men, diagnosed as having learning problems when teenagers, are seen around ten years later, carrying on their lives as young adults and holding jobs. The effects of their learning difficulties are sensitively explored. How they cope, the jobs that they have chosen and their relationship to their employer is shown to be related to the history of support they have had from family and friends. “To Be a Somebody” is a careful, sympathetic look at the process of parents, peers, and the young people themselves adapting to living with learning problems.